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6 NIGHT SHIFT ALONE HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: Back in my mid to late 20s, I worked a
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Speaker 1: job as a security guard at a Kmart supercenter in
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Speaker 1: Iowa City, Iowa. Most of you probably never heard of
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Speaker 1: Kmart before, but to put it in simple terms, just
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Speaker 1: imagine a cheaper Walmart slash Target. Business was booming back
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Speaker 1: in the early 2000s, and nowadays a lot of Kmarts
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Speaker 1: ended up closing down. My job was to keep watch
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Speaker 1: of one that was currently in the process of relocating.
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Speaker 1: It was a chill job, although a bit boring, as
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Speaker 1: you'd be the only one in the store with nothing
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Speaker 1: to do. This never really bothered me, as I'd always
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Speaker 1: find myself playing games on my phone or texting a
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Speaker 1: friend to pass time. Well, one day, I had been
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Speaker 1: scheduled to work a double, meaning I'd be working both
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Speaker 1: the day and night shift. The reason for this was
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Speaker 1: because the other security guard who did the night shifts
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Speaker 1: quit on the spot and went to go make a
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Speaker 1: living in real estate. Because apparently this guy's obviously never
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Speaker 1: heard of a two weeks notice before and they scheduled
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Speaker 1: me until they could find another person. This got on
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Speaker 1: my nerves pretty easily and sitting in the dark making
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Speaker 1: $ 14 an hour didn't help. That being said, I really
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Speaker 1: didn't have a choice and bit my lip and agreed
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Speaker 1: to work a double. Throughout the day, things went well
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Speaker 1: for the most part, watching the movers relocate the shelves, equipment, etc.
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Speaker 1: 7pm comes around and I prepare myself for a long
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Speaker 1: 10 hour night shift. Being all alone in an empty
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Speaker 1: store with no light but a little office in the
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Speaker 1: back is scary enough. Now, let's fast forward till around 1am.
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting on my chair by the front when I
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Speaker 1: hear one of the radios turn on in the back office.
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Speaker 1: It's not uncommon for them to go off once in
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Speaker 1: a while as they tend to pick up signal from
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Speaker 1: someone else on the same channel. Not thinking anything of it,
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Speaker 1: I tend to my phone when I hear it go
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Speaker 1: off again, this time with a much stronger signal. At
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Speaker 1: that point, I get up and walk toward the back
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Speaker 1: office when I hear this low, grainy voice say, I
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Speaker 1: can see you. My heart sank into the pit of
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Speaker 1: my stomach as I heard him say this and it
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Speaker 1: was then where I asked who it was. After getting
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Speaker 1: no response, I glance over to the back exit of
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Speaker 1: the store and due to the glow of the red
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Speaker 1: exit sign, I was able to make out the silhouette
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Speaker 1: of a person. However, for some reason, I don't think
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Speaker 1: they saw me, and I played dumb by looking the
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Speaker 1: other way and turning off all of the radios. I
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Speaker 1: wasn't just going to go back to my post with
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Speaker 1: someone possibly dangerous in the building with me, so I
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Speaker 1: did the only thing I could do. Right then, I
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Speaker 1: turn around and start booking it toward the front entrance
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Speaker 1: as I heard whoever it was trying to catch up. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: I made it out the door, locking it behind me.
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Speaker 1: A few seconds later, I see this tall man dressed
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Speaker 1: in all black run up to the front and put
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Speaker 1: his hands on the window. He was not a pleasant
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Speaker 1: looking man. His eyes were wild and his grin was menacing.
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Speaker 1: At that point, I call the police where they thankfully
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Speaker 1: arrived in a few minutes where they went inside the building. However,
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Speaker 1: like in most situations like this, whoever was inside the
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Speaker 1: store with me was gone Police concluded that they had
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Speaker 1: simply left through the emergency exit. Needless to say, I
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Speaker 1: continued my shift while a patrol car stayed in front
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Speaker 1: just in case whoever it was came back. Till this day,
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Speaker 1: I still can't get that man's face out of my head.
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Speaker 1: It's just something you can't unsee. I stayed at that
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Speaker 1: job for a month later before landing a new one
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Speaker 1: that paid more and didn't require night shifts. I've never
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Speaker 1: seen or heard from that man again and I really
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Speaker 1: hope it stays that way. While all of this was
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Speaker 1: indeed a scary situation one question still comes up that
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Speaker 1: I can't seem to figure out the answer to. The
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Speaker 1: store had several cameras that had night vision and not
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Speaker 1: one of them picked up the man by the exit
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Speaker 1: even though they were pointed at it. The police and
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Speaker 1: I reviewed the footage and saw no one in the
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Speaker 1: store other than me That was the reason as to
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Speaker 1: what made me so scared, and it's also the reason
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Speaker 1: why I will never work another night shift again. This
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Speaker 1: took place in 2012 at a 7-Eleven gas station when
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Speaker 1: I was a junior in college. I attended a community
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Speaker 1: college in New York. not the city, just the state itself.
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Speaker 1: The reason I chose this school was to make it
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Speaker 1: easier for me to transfer to the university I originally wanted. However,
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Speaker 1: every college student knows that college isn't free and can
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Speaker 1: definitely leave you with a large debt in your bank account.
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Speaker 1: I received federal aid from state, but there was still
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Speaker 1: a lot of tuition that I had to pay for.
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Speaker 1: Because of this, I ended up getting a full-time job
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Speaker 1: at a 7-Eleven working as a gas station attendant. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't the best-paying job, but it paid enough to help
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Speaker 1: me get by while also paying off school. I've done
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Speaker 1: tons of under-the-table stuff, like a bouncer, a cleaner at bars,
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Speaker 1: but I was really surprised that I was working this hard.
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Speaker 1: For reference, I'm a male, and I was 20 at
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Speaker 1: the time of this story. I'd mostly work night shifts,
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Speaker 1: which I didn't mind doing as these were the shifts
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Speaker 1: where you'd commonly have to deal with less people. 10pm
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Speaker 1: was around the time where you'd stop getting customers and
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Speaker 1: traffic would start to die down. Anything past 10pm was
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Speaker 1: your occasional customers coming in for a late night snack
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Speaker 1: or something. I'd say my shifts went relatively well until
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Speaker 1: a night where I had to cover for someone who
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Speaker 1: called in sick. It was annoying to say the least,
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Speaker 1: but I realized it's a bigger paycheck at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day. When working the night shift, we had
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Speaker 1: to go ahead and shut the front door, turn off
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Speaker 1: all of the lights, and operate from the window box.
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Speaker 1: It was a quiet night with little to no cars
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Speaker 1: on the road, and I had just gotten done wiping
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Speaker 1: the counter. With nothing to do, I go behind the
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Speaker 1: counter and decide to play some Sudoku to pass the
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Speaker 1: time when I look out the window and saw a
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Speaker 1: man by the gas pumps. He looked somewhat normal, although
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Speaker 1: a bit lanky, and seemed to have taken an interest
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Speaker 1: in the gas pumps for some reason. He wore a
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Speaker 1: black long-sleeved shirt, cargo pants, and, out of all things,
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Speaker 1: was carrying an empty Macy's bag. He casually walked around
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Speaker 1: the pumps as if he were inspecting them. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: sure what he was doing, but I kept a close
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Speaker 1: eye on him. It also came to my attention that
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Speaker 1: this man didn't have a car, nor did he arrive
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Speaker 1: in one. It was almost as if he just walked
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Speaker 1: up to the gas station. After all, this was located
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Speaker 1: in an area that was notorious to druggies and meth heads,
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Speaker 1: so I guess it wasn't all that uncommon. About a
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Speaker 1: minute later, he proceeds to walk up to the window
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Speaker 1: and says he needs pump 3. He throws his card
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Speaker 1: into the box thing and I pull it in. Our
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Speaker 1: practice for this was that if they gave us their card,
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Speaker 1: we'd let them pump as much gas as they wanted
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Speaker 1: and swipe their card afterwards. We try to go above
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Speaker 1: and beyond for our customers, but the policy sort of
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Speaker 1: changed for obvious reasons. I then see him walk toward
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Speaker 1: pump 3 confused as to what he was doing since
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Speaker 1: I didn't see a car. What I saw him do
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Speaker 1: next is something that chilled me to the bone where
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Speaker 1: all I could do is just watch. He proceeds to
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Speaker 1: take the gas pump and begins to pour all of
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Speaker 1: the gasoline on the actual pump itself while making this
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Speaker 1: insane laugh. At this point I hit this little pager
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Speaker 1: we have under the desk that alerts the police in
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Speaker 1: case of a fire or robbery. 20-year-old me sees this
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Speaker 1: man take out a lighter and attempts to ignite it.
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Speaker 1: By some stupid luck, the lighter isn't working, and I'm
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Speaker 1: crouched down by the counter praying the police make it
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Speaker 1: in time before this place goes up in flames. These
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Speaker 1: pumps are extremely flammable, and I knew that if he
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Speaker 1: had managed to light it that it would have been over.
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Speaker 1: The more he tried to light the lighter, the more
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Speaker 1: irritated he became, and that was when I hear the
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Speaker 1: sound of police sirens approaching. they get out of their
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Speaker 1: patrol cars and tase him on the spot before he
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Speaker 1: could start up the lighter. I come running out of
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Speaker 1: the gas station, nearly crying, knowing that if they had
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Speaker 1: arrived any later, I'd probably be dead. Both police and
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Speaker 1: the fire department arrived on scene where they were thankfully
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Speaker 1: able to remove the gas. At that point, I fall
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Speaker 1: to my knees, bawling my eyes out and my body
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Speaker 1: hit the concrete of the gas station. I was comforted
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Speaker 1: by police and was taken to a hospital to check
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Speaker 1: if I was exposed to any hazardous chemicals. I obviously
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Speaker 1: ended work early that night, but still got paid for
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Speaker 1: what I was owed. A week later, I got laid
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Speaker 1: off from 7-Eleven, but ended up getting a huge severance
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Speaker 1: package to pay for school. I ended up getting a
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Speaker 1: new job shortly after that, after my previous employer wrote
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Speaker 1: a glowing recommendation letter for me. While something good did happen,
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Speaker 1: this also had a major impact on my mental health
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Speaker 1: as I had to get years of therapy. It's been
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Speaker 1: 10 years now, and this incident is still brought up
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Speaker 1: by my parents from time to time. I'm now in
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Speaker 1: my early 30s and have a lovely wife and have
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Speaker 1: moved past it. I urge anyone reading this to cherish
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Speaker 1: the time you have as you don't know what will
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Speaker 1: be your last day. Had that man managed to spark
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Speaker 1: that lighter, I wouldn't be writing this right now. The
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Speaker 1: whole gas station would have exploded and that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: I thought was going to happen. I still don't know
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Speaker 1: what his intentions were or why he did what he did,
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Speaker 1: but to be honest, I don't want to know. I'd
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Speaker 1: like to think that he was on something, but maybe
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Speaker 1: that's just because I'd rather not think of the alternative.
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Speaker 1: I still think about how it would have turned out
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Speaker 1: had the police arrived even a minute later.
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Speaker 2: I work in a fairly busy hospital downtown, in the NICU.
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Speaker 2: I usually work at night, and I kid you not,
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Speaker 2: this happened to me less than five minutes ago. I
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Speaker 2: figured it would be a good idea to document this
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Speaker 2: before I forget. It's also a way for me to
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Speaker 2: have some sort of proof in case something comes of it.
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Speaker 2: During orientation, we are taught to be observant for signs
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Speaker 2: of a possible abductor. We were taught to look for
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Speaker 2: oversized clothing, bags, and shifty behavior. Fortunately, I've never encountered
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Speaker 2: a strange individual until just now. It's currently 2.59 a.m.,
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Speaker 2: and I've been sitting at the front desk since 11 p.m.
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Speaker 2: I'm a nursing student, so I usually handle clerical work
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Speaker 2: around the unit. I also monitor the cameras to ensure
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Speaker 2: no one unauthorized is present. It's usually pretty quiet at night. However,
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Speaker 2: I've already had a somewhat weird night, so this just
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Speaker 2: adds a cherry on top of it. The NICU and
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Speaker 2: most of the second floor is a secured unit. This
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Speaker 2: means that in order to gain entrance, you have to
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Speaker 2: pick up a phone that then rings at the desk.
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Speaker 2: Usually it's parents wanting to see their babies or family
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Speaker 2: members who are lost. It typically quiets down around 11pm,
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Speaker 2: so no one usually comes in or out during my
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Speaker 2: shift except for housekeeping. One of the security cameras is
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Speaker 2: positioned so I can see who is picking up the
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Speaker 2: first phone. I had been sitting here browsing Instagram when
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Speaker 2: the phone rang. I glanced over at the phone, thinking
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Speaker 2: it was a parent wanting an update or something of
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Speaker 2: that sort. It took me a second to realize that
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Speaker 2: it was the number for the first set of doors.
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Speaker 2: I picked it up and looked over at the screen.
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Speaker 2: There was a lady in baggy clothing with a sling
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Speaker 2: on her arm. I answered the door and she said
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Speaker 2: she wanted to find her cousin who had apparently been
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Speaker 2: brought up from the emergency department. I asked for the
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Speaker 2: last name and she unintelligibly rambled off a Latino name
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Speaker 2: that I only caught the first part of. Knowing that
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Speaker 2: we did not have any new admissions I told her
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Speaker 2: we didn't have anyone by that name. I tried to
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Speaker 2: get more information from her and she again mentioned that
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Speaker 2: her cousin had been brought up from the E.D. In
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Speaker 2: that case, I informed her that she should go to
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Speaker 2: labor and delivery and speak to them. She hesitated and
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Speaker 2: then said okay and walked away. I got a really
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Speaker 2: weird feeling from her, so I checked the census to
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Speaker 2: see if anyone was being assessed in L and D
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Speaker 2: and there wasn't. So either she was at the wrong
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Speaker 2: hospital or she wanted access to the unit for something
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Speaker 2: more sinister than just seeing her cousin. I shrugged it off,
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Speaker 2: thinking that if her cousin was in L and D,
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Speaker 2: she would find her and all would be well. About
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Speaker 2: five minutes later, the same lady appeared in her extremely
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Speaker 2: baggy clothing and her sling. The only difference was that
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Speaker 2: this time, she was putting the sling on and using
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Speaker 2: her injured hand to fumble with something in her oversized sweatshirt.
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Speaker 2: She picked up the phone and once again requested entry
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Speaker 2: to find her cousin, mentioning that L and D said
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Speaker 2: they had no one by that name. I told her
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Speaker 2: the exact same thing, insisting that she needed to contact
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Speaker 2: her cousin and return to L and D. She became
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Speaker 2: hostile for a moment, then hung up the phone. Whether
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Speaker 2: or not she was trying to gain access to the
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Speaker 2: unit for things that she shouldn't be doing, I'll never know.
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Speaker 2: But creepy lady who looked like a baby snatcher, I
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Speaker 2: hope we never meet again. I am a 6 feet
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Speaker 2: 7 male in Australia, and I'd like to think I'm
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Speaker 2: a fairly tough and intimidating guy, but some of the
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Speaker 2: stuff that used to go on at the mall I
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Speaker 2: used to work the night shift for still gives me
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Speaker 2: goosebumps to this day. So the mall I worked at
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Speaker 2: was very, very large. Probably the largest in my state,
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Speaker 2: I'd say. Up until about 8.30 p.m., it would still
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Speaker 2: be quite busy. Only around 9.30 p.m. would we manage
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Speaker 2: to usher all of the stragglers out, and only at
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Speaker 2: about 11 p.m. would all of the business owners have left.
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Speaker 2: My job was basically to patrol the mall and make
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Speaker 2: sure no one was sticking around after the doors were
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Speaker 2: closed during the night. We didn't have guns or batons,
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Speaker 2: only a can of mace that was very rarely used.
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Speaker 2: There were multiple occasions where we would find would-be thieves
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Speaker 2: hiding around trying to break into shops after dark, but
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Speaker 2: they were normally far outnumbered by the five of us
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Speaker 2: on shift at a time, and they would usually be
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Speaker 2: intimidated by me or some of the other imposing members
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Speaker 2: of security. This one night, though, things started getting really
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Speaker 2: weird for me on the night shift, so I'd say
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Speaker 2: it was about two o'clock, and I was standing in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the empty food court, eating a sandwich.
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Speaker 2: This was the only part of the mall that had
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Speaker 2: any light at night time due to the skylight, so
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Speaker 2: it was comfortable to eat there. While I was eating, though,
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Speaker 2: I heard a dull scraping noise from the hallway leading
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Speaker 2: off from the food courts into some toilets. It sounded
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Speaker 2: like a piece of metal dragging across the floor. I
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Speaker 2: was immediately put on edge, and I flicked on my
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Speaker 2: flashlight without a moment of hesitation. I can remember creeping
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Speaker 2: down the hallway, flashlight in hand, illuminating a good six
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Speaker 2: or seven meters in front of me. As I got
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Speaker 2: closer and closer to the end of the hall, the
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Speaker 2: noise became louder and louder until I was at the
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Speaker 2: end of the hallway, and there were the toilet doors
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Speaker 2: to the left and right of me. I could tell
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Speaker 2: the sound was coming from the female toilets, though. I
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Speaker 2: gripped the handle and opened the door a tiny little crack.
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Speaker 2: The noise was now very clear and had me not
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Speaker 2: scared but confused. I yelled, The noise quickly stopped. I
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Speaker 2: paused for a moment, listening hard through the tiny crack
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Speaker 2: of the door. and I swear to God I could
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Speaker 2: hear breathing. Low, male breathing. I shut the door, still
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Speaker 2: gripping the handle tightly, and flicked on my radio. This
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Speaker 2: is 1-3. I need help in the food court bathrooms.
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Speaker 2: I think someone's here. There was no response. This was
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Speaker 2: really strange, and it put me further on edge. Policy
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Speaker 2: was to always answer the radio, and now I was
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Speaker 2: truly becoming quite alarmed. This is 1-3. Does anyone copy?
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Speaker 2: Still no response. I can remember whispering to myself. I
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Speaker 2: again opened the door a tiny crack. Listen, mate, I said,
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Speaker 2: sounding as intimidating as possible. If you don't come out
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Speaker 2: with your hands up, you're going to end up eating
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Speaker 2: your teeth tonight. Do you want that? I sat there
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Speaker 2: at the door, quite honestly terrified at this point. This
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Speaker 2: whole situation made no sense at all. Why would someone
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Speaker 2: be in the female bathrooms? What was the metal noise?
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Speaker 2: I very slowly opened the door and scanned my flashlight
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Speaker 2: slowly across the room. All the cubicles were open, but
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Speaker 2: other than that, the room was totally empty. I was
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Speaker 2: totally terrified by now. I was definitely losing it. I
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Speaker 2: walked into the center of the bathroom, closing the door
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Speaker 2: behind me, scared to the core. I let out a faint,
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Speaker 2: this is some horror movie shit I, come out, when
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Speaker 2: I heard the long whining squeak of the door behind me.
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Speaker 2: I spun around basically crying at this point, and shown
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Speaker 2: my flashlight on a massive man, at least a head
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Speaker 2: taller than me or so it seemed in my state
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Speaker 2: at the time. He was Caucasian and at least in
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Speaker 2: his forties, with matte gray hair all over his forehead.
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Speaker 2: He was mid-opening the door but stopped dead still in
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Speaker 2: the middle of his action. He just looked at me,
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Speaker 2: smiling this guilty smile like a kid would make when
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Speaker 2: he gets caught stealing biscuits or something like that. I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to lie, I was so scared I froze.
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Speaker 2: He lifted his finger up to his mouth. before swinging
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Speaker 2: the door open all the way and sprinting out with
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Speaker 2: what looked like some type of small metal box in
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Speaker 2: his hand. Turns out he was just behind the toilet
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Speaker 2: door when I was opening it and I totally missed him.
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Speaker 2: I was so close to him and didn't even notice him.
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Speaker 2: He could have killed me if he had a knife
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Speaker 2: or something and that thought still haunts me to this day.
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Speaker 2: Later that night my radio miraculously started working again and
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Speaker 2: I told my co-workers about my story. They collectively went
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Speaker 2: pale when I told them what happened. They all had
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Speaker 2: similar stories, but none were as much of a close
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Speaker 2: shave as mine. I worked the night shift for another
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Speaker 2: week after that before I quit. I'm not sticking around
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Speaker 2: in a job like that.
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Speaker 1: About a year ago, in my final semester in college,
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Speaker 1: I worked at a Shaw's grocery store in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know what Shaw's is,
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Speaker 1: it's basically a grocery store that's mainly based in the Northeast.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a car yet, so I mainly requested
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Speaker 1: for day shifts, as I've always been skeptical of the night.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't that I hated them, it was more so
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Speaker 1: the fear of what could happen, especially to a petite
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Speaker 1: 5'7 girl like me. However, sometimes I'd be given a
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Speaker 1: closing shift, much to my annoyance, as I had a 7.45am
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Speaker 1: class and we closed pretty late. Whenever I did have
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Speaker 1: a closing shift, we'd end up closing at 10, and
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Speaker 1: it's about an hour's bus ride back home. My managers,
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Speaker 1: being the jerks that they were, gave me a week
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Speaker 1: of closing shifts, knowing my situation. I was pissed, but whatever.
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Speaker 1: It's a few hundred dollars added to my paycheck, so
21:05
Speaker 1: I couldn't argue with that. It was a Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: and I had just finished stocking a few chips as
21:12
Speaker 1: we had just gotten an extra shipment. It was me,
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Speaker 1: my manager, and another coworker running the register. It's about
21:22
Speaker 1: an hour before we close, and the store is pretty
21:24
Speaker 1: much dead except for a few customers. I finish putting
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Speaker 1: the chips on the shelves and get ready to clock out.
21:33
Speaker 1: Before doing so, my manager had told me to go
21:36
Speaker 1: outside and bring the shopping carts that were in the
21:38
Speaker 1: parking lot to the store. Living in a decent sized city,
21:43
Speaker 1: it wasn't uncommon for careless people to leave their carts
21:47
Speaker 1: out in the open. As I'm grabbing a cart beside
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Speaker 1: a car, a woman rolls down her window and says hello.
21:55
Speaker 1: With a friendly smile, I say hello back and asked
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Speaker 1: if I could help her. In the car was a
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Speaker 1: mom and what appeared to be her teenage daughter in
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Speaker 1: the front seat. Right away, the mom seemed concerned, looking
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Speaker 1: back and forth before telling me that they needed gas.
22:15
Speaker 1: I tell her there was a gas station just down
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Speaker 1: the road but she then interrupts me, asking if I
22:21
Speaker 1: could give her money for gas. She's explaining as to
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Speaker 1: how she just came from another state and was in
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Speaker 1: desperate need. Being a dirt poor college student, I barely
22:33
Speaker 1: made enough to pay for my own tuition. However, I
22:37
Speaker 1: didn't want to decline help to someone in need, so
22:40
Speaker 1: I take out my wallet and hand her a $ 5 bill.
22:45
Speaker 1: She stares down at the money, and then back at me,
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Speaker 1: as if she wanted more when she said that it
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Speaker 1: wasn't enough. I told her I was sorry, and that
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Speaker 1: was all I had. She then says in a more
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Speaker 1: direct tone, if I could get into her car and
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Speaker 1: go down to the gas station to help her get gas.
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Speaker 1: As I was about to respond, that's when I noticed
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Speaker 1: the teenage daughter had been staring at me the whole time.
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Speaker 1: She's sitting in the seat, giving me this dead stare
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Speaker 1: while licking her lips as if she were planning on something.
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Speaker 1: That was my cue to get out of there as
23:23
Speaker 1: something wasn't right. Thankfully, my manager had come out and
23:28
Speaker 1: when he saw the car, it immediately pulled out of
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Speaker 1: the parking lot and drove off. I remember running up
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Speaker 1: to him and thanking him for noticing. He also knew
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Speaker 1: something was wrong as he could definitely see the fear
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Speaker 1: and panic of my face. My manager took a picture
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Speaker 1: of the car and was able to identify the year
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Speaker 1: and model of it. I worked at that Shaw's for
23:54
Speaker 1: a good year after that and never saw that car again.
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Speaker 3: For a little backstory, this all took place when COVID-19
24:08
Speaker 3: had shut everything down in March 2020. I was sent
24:12
Speaker 3: home from my college and I had to do with
24:14
Speaker 3: Zoom classes, and I also went back to work at
24:17
Speaker 3: the burger joint that I would work at whenever I
24:19
Speaker 3: was home on breaks. I won't say the name of
24:22
Speaker 3: the place, but it was always very busy, and during
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Speaker 3: COVID it made us even busier due to us being
24:27
Speaker 3: a fast food place, so we never had to close down,
24:30
Speaker 3: but other places in the plaza did. We always had
24:33
Speaker 3: some really crazy and nasty people, but the pandemic just
24:37
Speaker 3: made everyone so much worse. At the time, we had
24:40
Speaker 3: this one regular that would come in who we thought
24:42
Speaker 3: had some mental problems multiple times a week. He would
24:46
Speaker 3: be really emotionless in his talking and just gave really
24:49
Speaker 3: blank dead stares towards everyone and just stood there like
24:52
Speaker 3: a gargoyle, really intimidating and statuesque. He would ride his
24:56
Speaker 3: bike up to the walk-up area and look through the
24:59
Speaker 3: sliding windows until one of us got to taking his order.
25:02
Speaker 3: But he only really liked certain people to take his
25:04
Speaker 3: order and was also very cold towards us. He would
25:08
Speaker 3: order the same thing every time, but once it fresh
25:11
Speaker 3: right out of the grease and handled by once again
25:13
Speaker 3: only certain people. And to make sure of it, he'll
25:16
Speaker 3: intensely stare at us through the pickup window. He would
25:20
Speaker 3: make the other customers outside so uncomfortable that they would
25:23
Speaker 3: walk away or they would just sit in their cars
25:25
Speaker 3: until they left. He used to only come in during
25:28
Speaker 3: the day shifts, but because days were much busier than
25:30
Speaker 3: the night shifts, and with all his demands that he
25:33
Speaker 3: would give us every time, My manager got fed up
25:36
Speaker 3: and told him to no longer come here during the day,
25:38
Speaker 3: thus now making him a night shift problem. During the week,
25:43
Speaker 3: I would work night shifts because of class and I
25:45
Speaker 3: would usually be clocking out by 10pm. It was around 9.30
25:49
Speaker 3: and I was closing my side down and starting to
25:51
Speaker 3: clean when he then rolled up on his bike. I
25:55
Speaker 3: happened to be one of the few people he let
25:56
Speaker 3: take his order, so as usual I took his order.
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Speaker 3: He wants everything completely fresh, the standard list of demands.
26:04
Speaker 3: But one demand he gave was new. He always orders
26:08
Speaker 3: a side of fries with his meal, and sometimes to
26:10
Speaker 3: put the fries in the carton, we either use a
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Speaker 3: scooper or tongs. He asked us to use the scooper
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Speaker 3: instead of the tongs because it'll give him more fries.
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Speaker 3: Me just wanting him to leave and being close to
26:21
Speaker 3: leaving myself, I just went over and told the fry
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Speaker 3: guy what he wanted. The fry guy just rolled his eyes,
26:27
Speaker 3: knowing how annoying this guy is, and dropped some new
26:29
Speaker 3: fries in the grease for him. The fry guy went
26:32
Speaker 3: on a break shortly after, and the night manager took
26:35
Speaker 3: over a station and waited for the fries to be ready.
26:38
Speaker 3: She didn't know it was this guy, though, and she
26:41
Speaker 3: used the tongs to put the fries in the carton.
26:43
Speaker 3: She then hands me the order to pass out. The
26:46
Speaker 3: guy slides open the window, and he told me that
26:48
Speaker 3: she didn't do what he asked and that he wants
26:50
Speaker 3: more fries in his bag, since it looked like she
26:52
Speaker 3: didn't put enough in, which she put plenty in. He
26:56
Speaker 3: just didn't get his way. Once again, just wanting to
26:59
Speaker 3: leave after I'm done with him, I just oblige and
27:02
Speaker 3: go back. My co-worker who I'm going to call E
27:05
Speaker 3: calls back and says that I shouldn't let him do that.
27:08
Speaker 3: I then called back saying that we've been letting him
27:10
Speaker 3: control us for months and it's not my problem to
27:12
Speaker 3: handle a manager's problem if he has issues. My night
27:16
Speaker 3: manager hears this and seizes the guy at the window.
27:19
Speaker 3: They then groan and they ask me what the issue
27:22
Speaker 3: is with them this time. I explained her the story
27:25
Speaker 3: and she went up to him and told him that
27:26
Speaker 3: it makes no difference what she does. He's getting his
27:29
Speaker 3: order fresh every single time by the people he wants
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Speaker 3: to make his order, so to just suck it up
27:33
Speaker 3: and take the bag. She hands him the bag and
27:36
Speaker 3: then storms in the back to finish her inventory. The
27:40
Speaker 3: guy then pokes his arm and head in the window
27:42
Speaker 3: and tries to get one of the other co-workers to
27:43
Speaker 3: remake his order. Co-worker and I both said that we're
27:47
Speaker 3: not going to do that since there was nothing even
27:48
Speaker 3: wrong with his food. Well, he doesn't like this and
27:52
Speaker 3: he actually throws his bag of food inside the store
27:54
Speaker 3: and spills it all over the floor. He sees this
27:58
Speaker 3: and absolutely loses it. She runs over to the window
28:01
Speaker 3: that he's still in and then screams at him how
28:03
Speaker 3: he can't disrespect us like this and that we for
28:06
Speaker 3: sure won't be remaking his order now, but we'll give
28:08
Speaker 3: him his money back. He then screams at her and
28:11
Speaker 3: they actually go at it for a few minutes. I
28:14
Speaker 3: call up the night manager and she runs up to
28:17
Speaker 3: also scream at him. As he gives the guy back
28:19
Speaker 3: his money, he actually grabs her arm and then yanks
28:22
Speaker 3: her almost through the window. Now, because of the pandemic,
28:26
Speaker 3: we have these plastic dividers at the top of where
28:28
Speaker 3: the customer would be speaking to. So if that wasn't there,
28:31
Speaker 3: she would have went straight through the window. Now everyone
28:34
Speaker 3: is screaming at this guy to get the hell out
28:36
Speaker 3: of there and then we're calling the cops as he
28:37
Speaker 3: just assaulted a minor. Earlier that week, he had Rachel
28:41
Speaker 3: Slurr screamed at her by a bunch of rednecks because
28:44
Speaker 3: she was black. I felt really bad for her dealing
28:47
Speaker 3: with two big issues that happened in such a short
28:49
Speaker 3: period of time. She broke out of his grasp and
28:52
Speaker 3: ran to the back. The guy didn't even leave. In
28:56
Speaker 3: his crazy, twisted mind, he thought he was in the
28:58
Speaker 3: right here. He was running in circles outside of our
29:01
Speaker 3: walk-up area and was actually screaming to himself about E
29:04
Speaker 3: and how he's going to set the cops on us.
29:07
Speaker 3: He tries banging on the windows to further get our attention,
29:10
Speaker 3: but we just ignored him. Four cop cars drove in,
29:14
Speaker 3: blocking the entrance and the exit of the drive-thru so
29:16
Speaker 3: that no one can come in or leave. They talk
29:19
Speaker 3: to him, and the guy just isn't grasping that he
29:21
Speaker 3: attacked a minor, and he's crazy. The owner of the
29:24
Speaker 3: company sends in the security footage of just what happened
29:27
Speaker 3: to the cops, and we set the guy on trespassing.
29:31
Speaker 3: The guy actually had to be escorted off the property
29:33
Speaker 3: because he wouldn't leave. He thankfully hasn't come in since
29:37
Speaker 3: that day, but we still see him riding around the
29:39
Speaker 3: road next to our place and he gives us menacing
29:42
Speaker 3: looks every time he passes by not once breaking eye contact.
29:47
Speaker 3: He really wasn't right in the head. The dead stares
29:50
Speaker 3: he would give us through the windows the emotionless way
29:53
Speaker 3: he would speak to us how picky he was with
29:55
Speaker 3: everything and how quick he snapped and resorted to violence.
29:59
Speaker 3: It was insane Very fortunately, E didn't get any injuries
30:03
Speaker 3: from the incident and was only shaken up, but she
30:06
Speaker 3: did quit a few weeks later, and I can't really
30:08
Speaker 3: blame her. I feel really bad for her. No one
30:12
Speaker 3: should ever have to deal with being assaulted by customers
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Speaker 3: or having racial slurs spewed at them. She was way
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Speaker 3: too young to have to deal with that.